SIGNS • SYMPTOMS • KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANCIENTS • CYCLES OF NATURE • HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE

Information, knowledge, and wisdom are terms for human acquirements through reading, study, communication, and practical experience. Information applies to facts told, read, or communicated that may be organized into a body of information that leads to action and human development. It leads to the comprehension and understanding consequent on having acquired and organized a body of facts from a health science counselor or physician. Thus a knowledge of medicine both ancient and modern.

God created worlds by word of his power, which is his Son (Moses 2: 5).

Information as a concept has many meanings, from everyday usage to religious devotion to technical settings. The concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation. In its most restricted technical meaning, information is an ordered sequence of symbols. The order is determined by Hierarchy.

Discovering the Therapeutic Hierarchy - Therapeusis™

A Greek word that once identified the ancient sect of healers - the Therapeutae - today we offer a computer program to assist natural healing and healers. Therapeusis.org regards healing an art form of divinity. We are born into the world as an archetype, as an ensemble of god-given elements bequeathed  from our parents and ancestors. Our birthdate marks our entry into the world which is related to a season under the sun. The solar periods determines the growth of plants, as well as our cycles of awakening and sleep, digestion and assimilation of food;. and these cycles also affect our hormones. The lunar period determines the movements of the ocean's tides and our body's water; as well as our hormones, especially in the female. 

THE HIERARCHY

Therapeusis is essentially a hierarchial based computer program. It generates a list of remedies from known signs and symptoms of illness, listing most indicated to least indicated in importance. It is not a random event generator so popular today. Hierarchy means one thing or item ranked above another, or a series in which each element is graded or ranked in importance. Let's take the example of vitamin C power. Vitamin C is an important anti-oxidant, helps protect against cancers, heart disease, and stress; for making the collagen protein involved in the building and health of cartilage, joints, skin, and blood vessels. Vitamin C helps in maintaining a healthy immune system. Just to mention its most important functions. Any fruit which has from 6 to 15 milligrams of vitamin C per serving is regarded as a 'good' source. Some very acid fruit, for example the acerola cherry with a whopping 1500 mg. per 100 grams of weight, is ranked exceptional. Kiwifruit, which about 180 mg. per 100 grams make it a very good fruit choice for a vitamin C deficiency. So in the face of a frank vitamin C deficiency, kiwifruit and acerola would rank high, whereas Loquat, with only 1 mg. per 100 grams would rank low. 

Hierarchy also pertains to diagnosis. Physicians used to teach that diagnosis begins with the generals (low rank) and then leads to the specifics (high rank). For example, when diagnosing a fever (general), the constitution of the patient (general - foundational) is immediately assessed - is the patient strong and robust, or weak and cachexic. The fever would be taken throughout the day and night to note the periods of highs and lows (specifics). The palm of the doctor's hand would sense where the fever is highest, e.g. over the spleen, liver, or appendix; and palpation would note if there was any pain upon compression. Then the physician would take note of the color and consistency of the urine and stool, if there is appetite or vomiting. All these characteristics are then analyzed to determine how all the signs and symptoms add up to make the diagnosis, sorting our the characteristics of the various fevers: scarlet fever, ague, assam fever, bilious fever, war fever, undulant fever, etc. 

Today, much of this knowledge, accumulated since the days of Hippocrates, has almost been lost, save that of Therapeusis, and the school of monastic medicine. The observations of many disorders are just as useful today as the were then and often named by their observer's - Bell's palsy, Addison's disease, Potter's asthma, Crohn's disease, Bright's disease, etc. A lot of ancient wisdom has been superseded by a secular science and a medicine that translates into 'one size fits all,' but we know that it does not. Medicine today almost totally disregards fever as a healing agency. General medicine today believes we all only need 60 mg. per day of vitamin C, some iodized salt, a modicum of fruit and vegetables, a glass of milk, and all will be well. Generals (low rank) are simply not enough, and we all know through experience in life we do best when we specifically eat certain things, when we take an extra vitamin, and do worse when we ignore our body's calling (specific). 

Therapeusis is here to help you find specifics and make conscious choices. If you are in ill health or simply don't feel right, you can be certain you have made wrong choices or simply followed general advice in food and habit. Therapy implies change, and that is what you must do. Change, make a shift in your choices and habit, and health will be given an opportunity to divinely unfold. 

Just as in disease, health is no different. The body is more adapted and suited to certain foods, climates, habits, spices and staples, etc. that are structured in the grand scheme of things. We easily know the generals, good health habits for all of us, adequate water, protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. But this knowledge does not let us fine tune our body's general archetypal plan within nature that we are best adapted to. We can all eat a random assortment of carbohydrates to obtain our calories, but the specific choices, good or bad, may determine whether we are of normal weight or obese. One person may have a habit of eating white bread, ill adapted to the endomorphic profile, but would be better suited to quinoa and buckwheat as a seed grain staple. A melancholic person may have a good habit of consuming fruits, yet is still not obtaining enough vitamin C. A person with a nervous condition may eat adequate animal protein for vitamin B12, but due to gastric distress may not absorb it, requiring a sublingual source for optimum health. A person with poor vision may love his hot sauce (cayenne), but would be better benefited with rosemary as a spice of choice. 

To sum it up, therapeusis collates the generals and the specifics, and calculates hierarchiallly the most suitable foods, spices, vitamins and minerals for your constitution (general) and temperament (specifics) that allow you to harmonically resonant bests with mother nature and her grand hierarchy. Therapeutic principles based on homeopathy and a long tradition of monastic herbalism are also features of Therapeusis. Based on your constitution, signs and symptoms (temperament), the most indicated remedies are also identified. Even therapeutic sounds (Rife frequencies) and colors are identified. 

GENERALS
Constitution - Archetype (Earth [melancholic - Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn], Air [sanguine - Gemini, Libra, Aquarius], Fire [choleric - Aries, Leo, Sagittarius], or Water [phlegmatic - Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces] obtained from the star map at birth); Body type (endomorphic, ectomorphic, or mesomorphic)

SPECIFICS
Temperament [mental proclivities, defaults, personality disorders] - signs & symptoms [tachycardia, palpitations, shortness of breath, nausea, numbness, tingling, digestive upsets, aches and pains]

GENERALS + SPECIFICS = WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU!